John E. Raker

John E. Raker

John Edward Raker (born February 22, 1863 in Knoxville , Knox County , Illinois , †  January 22, 1926 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1926 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1873, John Raker moved with his parents to Lassen County , California, where he attended public schools. Between 1882 and 1884 he graduated from the State Normal School in San José . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1885, he began to work in Susanville in this profession. In December 1886 he moved to Alturas . Between 1895 and 1899, Raker served as the district attorney in Modoc County ; from 1903 to 1910 he was a judge in the same district. Politically, Raker was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1908 to 1910 he was their state chairman in California. In 1908 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver , where William Jennings Bryan was nominated for the third time as a candidate for president.

In the 1910 congressional election , Raker was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of California, where he succeeded William F. Englebright on March 4, 1911 . After seven re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on January 22, 1926 . Since 1913 he represented there as the successor to William Kent the second district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the First World War and the ratification of the constitutional amendments fell 16 bis 19 . From 1917 to 1919 he headed the Justice Department's Expenditure Control Committee. At the same time he also chaired the committee for the introduction of women's suffrage .

Web links

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• John E. Raker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John E. Raker in the database of Find a Grave (English)